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For those of you who have made it through our first summer reading list, we wanted to share with you a few with a special focus on women in leadership. These six books have challenged us, made us think about what it means to be a woman and a leader in the world, and encourage us to make changes to step more fully into our power to help others.

Summertime is the perfect time to take things slower, savor life and kick back. We like to have some great reading on hand for those precious moments in the sun --and we're total book nerds at heart. Here are some of our favorite reads about leadership and related topics.

We live in a world where harsh political, cultural, and ideological conflicts are more visible than ever before. The technology we have allows us to be daily witness to both the suffering and triumphs happening around us.

But we are ready for a more substantial shift.

We want to rise, to use our voices, to collect and combine in various ways into movements that together bring more beauty, love, and acceptance into this world.

For women particularly, the rise of the modern woman was marked by how masculine she could become – taking and seizing power, focusing energy on physical perfection and accumulating wealth and status.

Yet, our hearts yearn for more, for a merging of masculine and feminine dynamics that undoes the old paradigms to create new landscapes.

We want a plan to care for our earth in a sustainable way, rights and respect for all its inhabitants, a world where power, commerce, and community leadership are shared rather than hoarded by few.